Catherine Chaput

Professor and Thomas J. Kavanagh Chair in Rhetoric

BA, Creighton University; MA, Binghamton University; PhD, University of Arizona

Research and Teaching Interests: rhetorical history, theory, and criticism with an emphasis on the role of affect and embodiment in public deliberation and structural inequality

Catherine Chaput is the author of Inside the Teaching Machine and Market Affect and the Rhetoric of Political Economic Debates and editor of Entertaining Fear: Rhetoric and the Political Economy of Social Control and Into the Gateway: Project on Power, Place, and Publics. She has guest edited several journal issues and written dozens of articles and book chapters on the role of rhetoric and writing in the maintenance and transformation of social, political economic, and institutional structures. Currently, she is interested in learning from contemporary Black Studies scholarship to rethink rhetorical approaches to public deliberation and social movement change